The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-07-27
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Oregon hogs are mostly fattened o

No lawyer is a mem mOcr OF lue Inou-
tana Territorial Council.
Sidney, Neb, has an ornamental
high school with one pupil.
The street-cars in Pensacola, Fla, are
run wholly by electricity
Eleven American maidcns are now
engaged to marry foreign titles.
,Che chief of a tribe of Digger In
dians worships a stone churn as his
god.
Ex-Vice-President Wheeler, it is now
stated, is a victim of hypochondria in
stead of the opium habit,
San Francisco boys stole the roof of
The new City Hall, which is OF lead,
taking it away piece by piece
4 PouGhkecpsie young man set his
'ladr loves" bonnet on fire, one night
recently, by the ashes from his cigar.
\ grand juror at Missoula, Montana
Territory, recently asked the court to
excuse him on the ground that he was
liable to Indictment himself.
Tie largest fish ever taken at the Isles
of Shoals was recently caught by Miss
Rose Millmine, Of New York, and was
i halibu: weighing III pounds.
Mary Dickens, y granddaughter OF
the novelist, is going on the stage in
London. and = cousin OF Charles Dick
ems is living in New York in very
straitcned circumstances.
Peter Jenl:s, Buffalo lawyer, made
ten wills during his life, all of which
were offered for probate after his death.
He did his level best for the profession
before he quilted it
Tie niece of Beau Brummell has re-
Gently died in London She did not in
herit hcr celebrated uncles talent for
tying cravat, though she was an ex-
ceptionally handsome woman.
A LAWYERS clerical error in the trans
fer OF s certain piece of property in
Kansas City, which in 1874 was sold for
$3.50, has led to lawsuit over the pos
session of the land, which is now valued
at 100000.
The first hard-coal basc-burner stove
was taken to Deadwood, Oak, recently.
AS there is no hard coal out there to
burn IN it, the importer of the curiosity
thinks OF converting itinto IN ice-cream
freezer.
A Naugatuck, n. Y, saloonkeeper
has just bought 4 church. His applica-
ton for license was objected to on the
ground that his saloon would be too
near the church. He did away with
that objection by purchasing the
church.
Henry NJ. Stanley is remarkable for
a broad head, very thick through the
check bones. His hair is still dark and
thick, covering the temples. He is OF
middle size, weighing about 1e0 pounds.
He looks like man Of about 80 years
of acc.
William Alva De Long ran a savings
bank at Long Creek, Neb., taking de-
posts OF 4 nickel and upward. At the
end of 3 month he vanished, and his
gorgeous safe, which looked as though
it weighed ten tons, was found to be OF
wood, painted.
a lady in Oil City the other day lost
$500 cash on 8 street a little boy
found il, and the lady, oyerjoyed at the
recovery of her treasure, directed her
husband to reward the lad suitably.
The smallest coin the husband had was
= nickel, and the little boy got it.
Miss Ella De Lisle, pretty New En-
gland girl, visited Montreal, smote the
heart OF a member of the cabinet,
promised to be his wife, received
$3.50 diamond ring, went to New
York 20 buy her trousseau, drew on him
for $500, received the money aud
skipped.
Gumcheving girls, take notice! A
Morristown maiden has lost all control
OF ner jaw through this pernicious
habit, a physician whom she con-
suited said She had worn out the muscle
that sc;s as hinge, and she would be
obliged to resort to an operation to
make ii taut again!
The "hair moth" which creates havoc
md = fine head of hair, rapidly destroy
ing it and creating badness, is being
talked of in New York and Brooklyn,
and the cheap barber shops are being
blamed for the propagation.
Roger 4. Pryor went to New York
without dollar at the close of the war.
His practice is now worth $4,000 3
year, and he is interested in some busi-
ness ventures with Ben Butler which
promise large return. He is said to
have recently realized 100000 in some
railroad securities.
7. Brigham Bishop, who ran in New
York bucket-sbop much frequented by
women, and who has just failed, has
discovered that women creditors are
worse than men. They bring their
lunches and hang about his Office ell
day, turning up their noses at him and
calling him "a mean thing"
Ubeziah Slayton Of Fayette county,
Georgia, is the father of so many chill
dren that he cannot remember their
names. He has been married twice and
had eighteen children by one wife and
twelve by the other. He had five sons
in one company of Georgia regiment
during the war.
Garnet D. Baltimore, civil engineer
who was graduated some years ago at
the Troy Polytechnic Institute, is one OF
the most successful young colored men
Of the country. He now has charge OF
the canal locks enlargement near Syra.
cuse. His father is d barber who clips
locks in Troy.